What is the Hardest Workout You Ever Did?

TossaBeanBag
TossaBeanBag Posts: 458 Member
edited November 8 in Fitness and Exercise
In my younger days, I did the Beartooth Run in Red Lodge, Montana, USA. It's an 8 mile, 8% grade, uphill, beginning at around 9000 feet elevation. That was about as hard as the last 7 miles of a Marathon I ran.

Last night, I took a break from lifting heavy and did a lower body workout consisting of 20 reps with weight I could barely do on the 20th rep for squats, leg presses, extensions, hamstring curls, and calf raises. At about rep 20, my heart rate was definitely up (reminded me of a HIIT session). I did about 4 sets on all of these, and on each I almost wanted to hurl on the 20th rep.

What was a memorably tough workout you had?
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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    My last session looking for my 1RM with the high bar back squat.
    I found 315# was my 1RM, that was rep 175 of a total of 187 back squats that day. Warmup was 200 body weight squats, and I was doing some walking lunges as my rest sessions for the squatting. It was a tough workout, physically and mentally. A week later I beat that 1RM.
  • TossaBeanBag
    TossaBeanBag Posts: 458 Member
    edited November 2014
    dbmata wrote: »
    My last session looking for my 1RM with the high bar back squat.
    I found 315# was my 1RM, that was rep 175 of a total of 187 back squats that day. Warmup was 200 body weight squats, and I was doing some walking lunges as my rest sessions for the squatting. It was a tough workout, physically and mentally. A week later I beat that 1RM.

    Man, just the warm up would have smoked me. I would not be able to squat after that.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Eh, you work up to it. I'm recovering from being sick right now, so I know it would kill me now, but you could work up to it.
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    I ran up a mountain. Not the whole mountain, but my group walked down a trail to see a waterfall, and I ran the whole way back up the trail. By evening, I was sore, and by the next morning my calves were so sore I could barely hobble.
  • DojoMaster888
    DojoMaster888 Posts: 61 Member
    Putting down the twinkie. It was rough, soul breaking too.
  • logicalinks
    logicalinks Posts: 89 Member
    Hill run intervals. Was about 35 years old. Ran at about a 15-20% incline for approx. 100 yards as hard as I could, then jogged around two city blocks to get back to the bottom of the hill. Repeated eight times. Threw up at the end. :)
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    It was a job, forest firefighter. Hiking up mountains and swinging a pulaski (axe), 16 hours a day.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Physical fitness test in school. Couldn't complete anything and the pull-ups were especially annoying.
  • wilsoncl6
    wilsoncl6 Posts: 1,280 Member
    Pissed off my drill instructor in Marine Corps boot camp and he destroyed me for two hours. Made me lay a pancho down, fill it up with sweat, pour it out and fill it up again.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    The first one.

    Seriously... going from nothing to suddenly doing something... was hard as hell. I remember crying (with joy) when I managed to walk a full mile. And then cried when I had to walk all the way back, lol.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Every workout is harder than the last.
  • jstrun
    jstrun Posts: 70 Member
    running a full marathon...physically and mentall the hardest thing i've ever done, yet the happiest moment of my life crossing that finish line.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    101 miles on a bicycle, 104 degrees outside and 12,000 feet of climbing.
  • aarar
    aarar Posts: 684 Member
    4 weeks ago I did a 100km ultramarathon; that was tough.
  • mitchiejo
    mitchiejo Posts: 179 Member
    I did a boot camp workout a couple of years ago. I pulled a muscle in my ribs and was in pain for two weeks. Pain so bad the first week that I cried every time I tried to move.
  • mitchiejo
    mitchiejo Posts: 179 Member
    I did a boot camp workout a couple of years ago. I pulled a muscle in my ribs and was in pain for two weeks. Pain so bad the first week that I cried every time I tried to move.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    3 days crossing the Negev.
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    I remember trying to keep up with a buddy of mine who was home from school for the summer. He was a shot/discus thrower and we spent an hour or so doing some weird pyramid circuit... the weights were in a mezzanine, so I had to walk down stairs after we finished. I was feeling the 'burn', but didn't feel too bad until I hit that first step down and my legs buckled... it was an interesting summer.
  • jeremywm1977
    jeremywm1977 Posts: 657 Member
    DojoMaster888 wrote: »
    Putting down the twinkie. It was rough, soul breaking too.

    It was the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.........funny, I used the word "was". I still haven't put it down yet.
  • jeremywm1977
    jeremywm1977 Posts: 657 Member
    wilsoncl6 wrote: »
    Pissed off my drill instructor in Marine Corps boot camp and he destroyed me for two hours. Made me lay a pancho down, fill it up with sweat, pour it out and fill it up again.

    Thank you for showing me how right I was to not join the Marines 20 years ago.
    Much respect to you for doing it, but damn, that isn't for me.

  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Officially feeling like a wimp after reading this thread, lol! For me it's my elliptical workouts, HIITs for an hour with high resistance, I go all out and it leaves me totally beat.
  • bfergusonii
    bfergusonii Posts: 208 Member
    The Mud Run at Camp Pendleton Marine Base
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    101 miles on a bicycle, 104 degrees outside and 12,000 feet of climbing.

    Did you find the one hill in the midwest and do laps? lol.

    That sounds brutal.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Four people, one of them on the tractor, one driving the truck, 1200 bales of hay, finished up after dark driving next to the tractor so the guy baling could see by the truck headlights. got it in before rain, but well after the dew, so we had damp, heavy bales and lost many to mold. easily the worst day ever. Even the men a third my age were stumbling with exhaustion.
  • raysputin
    raysputin Posts: 142 Member
    Five hours in a white water kayak against the current just to get a 15 minute rush coming back down.
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
    Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    LolBroScience wrote: »
    Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.
    Yeah, thinking of GVT or Smolov here soon, once LP stalls.
  • rageginger
    rageginger Posts: 74 Member
    The Spartan Sprint, 2 years ago, after absolutely no training or regular exercise of any kind for the year prior. 4.5 hours of pure Hell and the hardest thing I've ever done.
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    The hardest workout I ever did was my first session at my highest weight ever 235 pounds. I was over weight and out of shape. I was self conscious and very intimidated. Glad I got over it
  • CarlKRobbo
    CarlKRobbo Posts: 390 Member
    LolBroScience wrote: »
    Smolov, and it was only the Jr. version.

    x2 for Smolov.... Only managed the Base meso, that was brutal enough!
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